Hi,
I’m looking at tidying up some existing makefile logic and noticed there isn’t
a lot of consistency in the format of conditionals - especially from myself
over the years. We use make for build automation, not directly for compilation,
and don’t use any pre-processor conditionals in this con
On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 22:40 +1100, Tony Theodore wrote:
> Is this a reasonable idea and is there any chance $(else) will have
> some defined value in the future?
"else" as a variable will never have another value. The POSIX standard
for make reserves variables that start with "." and are all capi
Tony Theodore me.com> writes:
>
> When there is an `else` in a complex section, it sometimes looks like:
>
> $(if , \
> \
> , \
> )
>
> These can be deeply nested and the dangling `, \` can get really hard to
parse. Constructs like:
>
> $(if , \
> \
>
